COVID-19
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March 9, 2021
Construction to resume on new hospital at Michigan Medicine
Michigan Medicine has received approval to restart construction on its new, state-of-the-art hospital, which was paused in March 2020 during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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March 3, 2021
Parents depressed by pandemic had negative impact on kids
Parent depression and stress early in the pandemic negatively contributed to young children’s home education and anxiety, a U-M study suggests.
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March 2, 2021
Mcards deactivated for students not following testing requirements
Mcard access to non-residential campus buildings has been deactivated for 375 undergraduate students, due to their failure to comply with mandatory COVID-19 testing requirements.
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March 1, 2021
U-M experts discuss common vaccine terms and descriptions
Throughout the pandemic, we’ve been bombarded with terms like vaccine schedule, variants, mRNA, and more. Two U-M faculty members define basic vaccine terms, and how these relate to the COVID-19 virus and vaccines.
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March 1, 2021
Campus briefs
Short news items from around the University of Michigan.
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February 26, 2021
Salary, hiring freezes to ease with approved FY ’22 budget
When the new fiscal year begins, and subject to budget approval, U-M employees will again be eligible for merit raises and campus units will be able to begin to fill critical faculty and staff vacancies.
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February 25, 2021
Faculty and students address health disparities, social inequities
As the COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected Black communities, U-M faculty, students and staff have worked to explore these inequities and identify ways to advocate for and implement change.
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February 23, 2021
Michigan Medicine joining county to vaccinate school workers
Michigan Medicine is working with the Washtenaw County Health Department to help vaccinate local school employees against COVID-19 at a Feb. 27 clinic at Michigan Stadium.
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February 22, 2021
Segregation, income disparity fueled high COVID-19 numbers
The growth rate of COVID‐19 cases and deaths was higher for U.S. metropolitan areas that exhibited greater Black and white or Hispanic and white segregation, a new U-M study shows.
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February 19, 2021
Further updates being made to ResponsiBLUE
U-M’s ResponsiBLUE app is being updated and will include a quarantine and isolation indicator for students, an additional question in the daily symptom tracking questionnaire and other improvements.
